Bidders who do not have their printed documents will be excluded from the meeting, as well as their bids disqualified.

Note: Bidders are required to wear the applicable PPE i.e. safety boots and reflective vests.Bidders without PPE will not be allowed at the site inspection meeting. I.D. documents must be available at the briefing session.

Briefing session: A compulsory briefing session will be held on 5 July 2017 at 10h00 at the Kimberley Transport Museum.

Special conditions: A non-refundable tender fee of R100.00 is applicable per tender document.

Payment is to be made to: Account name: Transnet Freight Rail. Account: Standard Bank. Account number: 203158598. Branch code: 004805. The deposit slip must reflect the RFQ number and the company name. Receipt/s to be submitted when collecting the RFQ document. If bidders intend to download the RFQ from the National Treasury eTender Publication Portal at www.etenders.gov.za, free of charge they are required to send their contact details to the following address: Leonie.Visagie@transnet.net by Tuesday, 4 July 2017 at 15h00. This is to ensure that any required communication (e.g. addenda to the RFQ) in relation to this RFQ reaches those intending to respond.

Transnet will not be held liable if bidders do not respond by this date and do not receive the latest information regarding this bid as a result : In terms of paragraph 3 of the National Treasury Scm Instruction No 4 of 2016/2017, which became effective on 1 May 2016, Transnet must ensure that suppliers of Transnet are registered on the Central Supplier Database [CSD] before any procurement related activities commences; the CSD can be used as the single list of prospective suppliers for Transnet; furthermore, according to paragraph 5.6, Transnet may only award bids to suppliers after verifying that the supplier is registered as prospective suppliers on the National Treasury Central Supplier Database.